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Handley team
takes home
Widget Cup
By CHRISTOPHER EARLEY
The Winchester Star
GINGER PERRY/The Winchester Star
Star photographer Ginger Perry won a first-place award from
the Virginia Press Association for this photo of Valley League
baseball players tangled up at third base.
Star staffers win
11 awards from
state press group
Star staff report
RICHMOND — The newsroom and advertising staff
of The Winchester Star took
home 11 awards at the 2015
Virginia Press Association’s
annual conference Saturday at
the Hilton Richmond Hotel &
Spa/Short Pump.
The Star, with a circulation of about 20,000, competes
among newspapers with circulations from 20,000 to 99,999.
The contest was judged by
members of the South Carolina Press Association.
In the newsroom, night editor Derek Gomes won a firstplace award in government
writing with stories about the
delay in the construction of the
Green Circle trail, the history
of annexing land in Virginia
and how some city residents
live in hotels for extended
lengths of time.
The stories, the judges
said, were “terrific explainers
of complex problems faced by
the city. The author also has a
good ear for quotes and their
deployment, and he is not
afraid of the archives.”
Rebecca Layne, Life section
editor, won a first-place award
for lifestyle pages, an award
that considered the overall
appearance of the page — in-
cluding typography, layout, selection and use of pictures and
artwork.
Photographer Ginger Perry
won a first place for her sports
news photo of Valley League
baseball players tangled up at
third base.
“A tight crop, good composition and peak action make
for a quick read that draws the
reader right into the action,”
the judges wrote about Perry’s
winning entry.
Photographer Scott Mason
won a first-place award in the
general news category for a
photo of grief-stricken family
members whose loved ones
had died from drug overdoses.
The photo, the judges
wrote, “shows great artistic
abilities in capturing the emotion and range of ages of those
affected by addiction for this
story.”
Sports editor Walt Moody
and assistant sports editor
Rob Stocks won a third-place
award for sports pages. For
this award, the judges considered makeup and general appearance, comprehensiveness
of coverage, selection and use
of stories and pictures and appeal to local readers.
Reporter Onofrio Castiglia won a third-place prize for
WINCHESTER — It was an industrious scene of flying sawdust,
spinning drills and teamwork at
Saturday’s Widget Cup.
More importantly, however,
the four teams of local high school
students learned valuable life lessons while competing, Frederick
County officials said.
Held at Millbrook High School,
this was the second year for the
design-and-build, STEM-based
(science, technology, engineering
and mathematics) competition. It
featured teams from James Wood,
Sherando, Millbrook and Handley
high schools that were comprised
of students enrolled in career and
technical education (CTE) classes.
More than 10 local businesses,
Winchester and Frederick County
public schools and the Frederick
County Economic Development
Authority (EDA) partnered to facilitate the contest.
Following a full morning —
including an hour of design and
three hours of building — the
John Handley High School Judges walked away with the cup, and
each member earned a $100 gift
card.
Frederick County EDA Business Coordinator Sally Michaels
said Saturday that the teams were
given a “customer,” and they built
their widget in accordance with
provided specifications.
This year’s customer, the
Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum in Winchester, requested a
mobile bookshelf with three sides,
with a list of specifications for the
teams to follow.
Teams toiled in the school’s
shop room with materials donated by sponsors, while parents and
friends watched a live feed of the
action on a giant screen in the auditorium.
“These students were very focused,” Michaels said. “I never
DENNIS GRUNDMAN/Special to The Winchester Star
Noe Jimenez, of Handley
High School, cuts metal for a
three-sided bookshelf for the
Shenandoah Valley Museum
during the Widget Cup held at
Millbrook High School Saturday
morning.
saw any of them use the bathroom
or go take a break.”
In addition to learning how to
build a product based on a customer’s request, Michaels said
the students also networked with
sponsors and volunteers.
At last year’s inaugural event,
a Sherando student even earned
himself an internship with one of
the businesses, Michaels said.
The previous event called for
teams to build a workbench for
people with disabilities.
“This year’s competition is a little different from the last one and
is more complex and challenging,”
said Winchester Metals President
Josh Phelps, who originally came
up with the idea for the competition.
As the 1 p.m. deadline loomed,
however, several projects remained unfinished. And as the
horn sounded to signify time was
up, Michaels said the uncompleted projects should serve as an im-
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See Awards, Page A7
Sherando teammates Justin McDonald (with saw) and Justin Petrie
cut a piece of plywood at the Widget Cup competition.
utomobiles go cruising for a good cause
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By CHRISTOPHER EARLEY
The Winchester Star
About 40 cars
timately raising $27,000 for the
American Cancer Society.
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portant lesson about life and the
business world.
“Sometimes you have a big
project and plans don’t work out,”
she told the teams. “You may need
a little extra time, and that happens. Be proud of the work you’ve
done.”
The teams later brought their
projects to the auditorium, where
each pitched the items to a panel
of judges and shared the thought
process that accompanied the design-and-build portion of the competition.
“We really put a lot of thought
a
Lots of problem-solving and teamwork, all things
you like to see in our future workforce.
— Josh Phelps
President, Winchester Metals
into this,” said Millbrook High
School team member Madalyn
Swaner. “We really had to work
as a team, and each person was
assigned to a specific area. Sadly,
we didn’t finish it.”
“I’ve been impressed watching
them work,” Phelps said. “Lots of
problem-solving and teamwork, all
things you like to see in our future
workforce.”
— Contact Christopher Earley
at [email protected]
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pates in the show. The Hoppers are hoping to meet
a goal of raising $8,000 for the relay, which, if accomplished, would total about $60,000 raised over
six years, Morgan said.
About 43 businesses were represented at Sunday’s event, with each donating $100 or more. It also
featured an auction and raffle ticket sales.
“Ask anyone here who has been affected by cancer and the hands go up,” Morgan said.
That sentiment was echoed by the relay’s student
coordinator, Emily Bainbridge.
Bainbridge, a 19-year-old sophomore at the university, said cancer has affected several family members.
“Cancer is very near and dear to my heart,” Bainbridge said Saturday. “And raising money is so important for helping others.”
— Contact Christopher Earley at [email protected]
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buy $500 of marijuana.
Court records show both
Edmond and Shepard have
criminal histories in Frederick County.
Edmond pleaded guilty
in February 2015 in county
Circuit Court for for assault
and battery on a law enforcement officer and was
sentenced to 12 months in
jail. He also was sentenced
to 90 days in jail after pleading no contest to assault
in July 2014, court records
show.
In addition to robbery
and conspiracy, Shepard is
currently facing credit card
larceny charges in county
Circuit Court, for which he
was indicted in October. He
is scheduled to appear in
that court June 9.
As of Sunday, Edmond,
Sanelli and Shepard were
still listed as fugitives, court
records show.
— Contact Christopher Earley at
[email protected]
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